Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!agate!shelby!neon!pescadero.Stanford.EDU!philip
From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Export duties [was Re: The New Macs: Greedy Compromises?]
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.015052.3192@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 3 Dec 90 01:50:52 GMT
References: <1990Nov30.201432.19210@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <1990Dec2.063922.23493@eng.umd.edu>
Sender: news@Neon.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System)
Reply-To: philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Lines: 12

In article <1990Dec2.063922.23493@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
|> How much is an australian dollar worth in US $?
|> If it is export duties, find yourself a constitutional lawyer with nothing
|> better to do than beat his head against the wall...  "No tax or duty shall
|> be laid on articles exported from any State."-- Article I, Section 9, US
|> Constitution.
Relax. There are no export duties for computer exports from the states.
Just a bug in the Excel document Apple uses for calculating foreign prices
(for example, the formula for computing prices in the UK uses $1 = 1 pound).
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu